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01 Apr 1998
News

Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

Hughes and Gregory Sims (both HBS '98), attracted some three hundred alumni, current and prospective students, and corporate sponsors. A Thursday evening welcome address by Pamela A. Thomas-Graham (MBA '88/JD '89), a partner at McKinsey &... View Details

06 Nov 2017
Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

only be responding to innovations in the private sector,” she said. “Why is it that we assume that all the innovation will come from the private sector? Why can’t a city have an innovation lab?” Stefan Knupfer, a senior partner and leader of Sustainability and Resource... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 1997
News

Manager's Notebook

Professor Jeffrey F. Rayport and John Hagel III (MBA '77, JD '78), a principal in McKinsey & Company's Silicon Valley office, detail how managers will resolve the upcoming tug-of-war over this valuable information asset. Until recently,... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Jan 2005
News

Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

second years in the MBA Program, when she worked for McKinsey in Tanzania on a program to make socialist villages economically viable. Joining the World Bank's Young Professionals Program after earning her Harvard degree, Barry soon made... View Details

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

Darragh, a director in McKinsey & Company's Boston office, and me, on behalf of the Social Enterprise Initiative here at HBS. Q: Why was it important for the Social Enterprise Initiative to sponsor this research? A: The field of... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

more elusive than ever. A recent McKinsey study reveals that the annual churn in the wireless industry increased from 17 percent in 1995 to 32 percent in 2000. This trend holds true even in industries less susceptible to turnover. In core... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

12 Nov 2019
News

Seismic Shift

diversity and inclusion at the highest levels of tech and venture capital. Diversity, she knew, was simply good business—for all of the social and cultural reasons, of course, but it also increased the bottom line. “Delivering through Diversity,” a 2018 report from... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

hundred and fifty volunteers helped screen and interview the applicants who met the September 6 deadline. Winning applicants then received hands-on coaching from McKinsey & Co. and Springboard to help them refine their business models... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Jul 2021
Blog Post

From Colombia to the District of Columbia: Making an Impact with Paulina Llano (MBA 2022)

passionate about, which is Political Science.” During undergrad, Llano interned at McKinsey and joined the firm full-time in Bogota after graduation. She spent three years traveling and working on a variety of projects before taking her... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

22 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

CEO Succession: The Case at Ford

Carly Fiorina, who had problems at Hewlett Packard? Mulally has a terrific record in managing a manufacturing or assembly manufacturing business. A: Well, I've already touched on a key element, and that is how much do they know about the business? Gerstner was always... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Auto; Employment

01 Jun 2015
News

Leadership on a Global Stage

and youth in Singapore’s “heartland.” He returned to Singapore three years later as a leadership consultant with McKinsey & Company, creating and delivering leadership training and development programs throughout Asia Pacific that were... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317089-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-004 Rajat Gupta Rajat Gupta, former managing director of McKinsey & Company; a director of Goldman Sachs, Procter & Gamble, and AMR; and a... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

MBA vs. MBA

Exxon Mobil stock. After working for McKinsey & Company and Trammell Crow, he started a real estate investment firm and now runs Waco-based Vananne LLC, focused on commercial real estate turnarounds and reinvestments. Taylor moved from... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

So it was with great interest that I looked over the results of a recent small, unscientific survey by McKinsey of what CEOs were reading this summer. The most frequently mentioned book somehow had escaped my attention: The Seventh Sense:... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

consultant at McKinsey and for Treasury Secretary Larry Summers for six years before joining Google at 32. When she and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began working together in 2007, Sandberg requested that Zuckerberg provide her with... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Mar 2011
News

The Path to Economic Revival

create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue Gary Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih. They won the prestigious View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

potentially vaccine-resistant. McKinsey & Co. argues that hoping for herd immunity in the United States and United Kingdom by October 2021 is optimistic, pointing out the likely possibility of “unexpected safety issues emerging with... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

03 Jul 2018
What Do You Think?

Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

punish families seeking safety.“ In the meantime, McKinsey quietly announced it would not pursue further contracts with ICE. There are many ramifications to any effort to establish moral leadership, either in an organization or an entire... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

After decades of destructive outsourcing, America's ability to innovate and create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih. They won the prestigious McKinsey Award... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

Profile

Phillip Michael Strazzulla

on careers by productizing the HBS coffee chat model, according to Strazzulla. “If you are at HBS and you had worked at McKinsey for three years but you want to work at a startup in product management because you heard it was cool,... View Details

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